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  The United States had provided Ukraine with intel on the location of the prized Russian warship Moskva before it sank, sources have said. Intelligence shared by the United States about the location of the Russian lead warship in the Black Sea helped Ukraine sink the missile cruiser Moskva -- prior to the strike that sank it, sources have said. A US official has told The Guardian that the decision to target the Russian flagship in the Black Sea using anti-ship missiles was that of Ukraine, but the US provided 'a range of intelligence' including the locations of those ships. The disclosure of US support for Ukraine in attacking the leading Russian warship comes to the fore as the Biden administration is under pressure from the Republicans to do more to support Ukraine against the Russian invasion and as polls suggested that Americans doubted whether President Joe Biden was being tough enough on Moscow. Russia said its lead warship in the Black Sea sank after an explosion and fi...

  Reacting to an explosive New York Times report on US support for the Ukraine military, Pentagon Spokesman John Kirby said that they do not provide intelligence on the location of senior military leaders or participate in decisions of the Ukrainian military. The US Defence Department, on Thursday, denied that it provided intelligence on the locations of Russian generals on the battlefield so that Ukrainian forces could kill them. Reacting to an explosive New York Times report on US support for the Ukraine military, Pentagon Spokesman John Kirby said it was true that the United States supplies Kyiv's forces with military intelligence "to help Ukrainians defend their country." "We do not provide intelligence on the location of senior military leaders on the battlefield or participate in the targeting decisions of the Ukrainian military," Kirby said. The New York Times reported on Wednesday that intelligence provided by the United States has helped the Ukrainian m...

  The suit, filed in the US state of California, seeks at least $5 million in damages and assurances that the company will invest more to ensure protection. A teenager has dragged instant video-messaging app Snapchat to court for doing nothing to prevent sexual exploitation of girls on its platform. In the lawsuit filed before a US court on Monday, the girl, identified as just L.W. to protect her identity as a victim of sexual abuse, and her mother have accused Snapchat of failing to design a platform that could protect its users from "egregious harm", The suit, filed in the state of California, seeks at least $5 million in damages and assurances that the company will invest more to ensure protection. "We cannot expect the same companies that benefit from children being harmed to go and protect them," the girl's attorney said in a statement. "That's what the law is for." The events date back to when the girl was 12. A man she had met on Snapchat al...